Shield for sad-irons.



No. 788,697. PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

G. A-BARROW.

SHIELD FOR SAD IRONS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN 15 1904 Patented. May 2, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. BARROVV, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHIELD FOR SAD-IRONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,697, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed January 15, 1904. Serial No 189,156.

T0 at 1071 0111, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHARLns A. BAnRow, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoes for Sad-Irons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and. use the same.

My invention relates to a novel construction in a shoe for sad-irons, the object being to provide a device which is adapted to receive the sad-iron, be heated thereby, and the lower face of which is smooth and polished, so as to be passed over the fabric, such face remaining smooth and clean by reason of the fact that it is not placed upon the fire and is accordingly not subject to taking up soot or dirt.

A further object is to provide a shoe which is very easily and quickly secured to the sadiron and firmly held in place thereon; and it consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompai'iying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal'section of a shoe for sad-irons constructed in accordance with my invention and showing a sad-iron in place therein. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a sad-iron having a shoe constructed in accordance with my invention mounted thereon. Fig. 3 is a detail vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

My said device consists of asheet-metal receptacle having the general contour of the ironing-face of the sad-iron and corresponding very nearly in size with the latter. The said reccptacle consists of the bottom plate A, provided with a peripheral flange B, the latter being extended adjacent the ends and merging into two integral standardsCand D. The said standard 0 is adapted to be turned over at its upper end to form a pivot for the U-shaped fastening device E, while the standard Dis provided with two outwardly-extending projections F, provided in their lower edges with recesses (Jr, forming hooks in which the free ends of said fastening device are adapted to be received and held. The said fastening device E consists of a U-shaped wire, the central part of which is held in the overturned end of said standard C and formsa pivot upon which the same turns, while the free ends thereof project beyond the standard D and are provided at their ends with knobs H, preferably of wood or other non-conductant material, which may be easily handled by the operator without danger of burning the fingers. Between the pivot portion and said free ends the said Wire is provided with two spiral loops J, forming interposed springs which are projected downward to bear upon the middle portion of the upper face of the sad-iron on each side of thehandle K thereof, so that when said free ends have entered the said recesses in the lower edges of said projections on said standard D the said loops J will exert a yielding pressure on the sadiron, and thus hold said shoe firmly in place thereon. My said shoe may obviously be made to conform in shape and size with various sad-irons, and, as will be obvious, the

iron is very easily inserted and removed, as it is only necessary that the operator press down upon and separate the knobs at the free ends of the fastening device, thereby releasing same from engagement with the projections of the standard I) and then throw the same entirely over out of the path of the sadiron. The latter is thereupon lifted out of the shoe and another iron inserted in place thereof.

I claim as my invention-- 1. A shoe for sad-irons, comprising a receptacle adapted to receive the sad-iron and carrying a fastening device, said fastening device comprising yielding bars disposed longitudinally relatively to said shoe, said bars being bent between their ends so that the middle portion thereof projects downwardly and bears upon the upper face of the sad-iron, and means for removably holding said bars in engagement with said sad-iron.

2. The combination with a sad-iron, of a shoe adapted to receive the same, said shoe comprising a receptacle provided at its ends with uprights 1:)rojecting beyond the upper surface of said sad-iron, fastening means pivotally secured to one of said uprights, yielding projections interposed between the ends of said fastening means and adapted to bear upon the upper surface of said sad-iron, and devices carried by the other upright adapted to receive and engage the free end portions of said fastening means to hold the latter in yielding engagement with said sad-iron.

3. A shoe for sad-irons comprising in combination a receptacle adapted to receive the sad -irons, uprights at either end of said receptacle, a U-shaped bar pivotally mounted at its central portion on one of said uprights and having its arms extending longitudinally on each side of the handle of the sad-iron, and projecting beyond the other of said uprights,

CHARLES A. BARROW.

Witnesses:

RUDOLPH WVM. LOTZ, CHAS. H. BURK. 

